7/28/2019 Current Affairs of December 2012

1/2

bharatnewsportal.com http://www.bharatnewsportal.com/2012/12/current-affairs-of-december-2012.html

Posted by Admin

.

India/World Current Affairs of: December

:2012

Lok Sabha resumes debate on FDI in multi-brand retail on

the second day; Oppos ition asks f or its withdrawal; Vot ing

to take place in the evening.

Rajya Sabha adjourns f or the day af ter disruptions over

quota in promot ion f or SC/ST in government jobs.

Supreme Court allows Sahara Group to refund 24,000

crore rupees to investors in instalments in two months.

Apex Court dismisses PA Sangmas pet itio n challenging

Pranab Mukherjees election as President.

Death to ll in Typhoon Bopha rises to 230 in Philippines;

Hundred people still missing.

Sensex gains 80 points in af ternoon t rade; Rupee appreciates 12 paise t o 54.56 against the do llar.

India were 172 for 4 at t ea against England in their f irst innings in Kolkata Test .

National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon holds talks with his Chinese counterpart in

Beijing;Bilateral issues including border discussed in the meeting.

Both Houses of Parliament adjourned till to morro w as a mark of respect to f ormer Prime Minister I.K.

Gujral.

Andhra Pradesh Assembly enacts hist oric law to implement sub-plans f or Scheduled Castes and

Scheduled Tribes.

Sensex loses 40 points in af ternoon t rade; Rupee declines 21 paise to 54.47 against the dollar in

late morning deals.

Sri Lankan navy captures 37 Indian f ishermen and 5 boats o f f Pulmoddai.

Singapore High Court stays Maldives Governments decision to terminate GMR Male airport contract.

Parliamentary Af f airs Minister Kamal Nath claims, FEMA not if ication on FDI in retail needs nod of only

one House.

Cheque signature mismatch may lead to criminal proceedings, says Supreme Court .

Delhi Police charge-sheet a suspected Indian Mujahideen operat ive for his alleged role in the Jama

Masjid blast-cum-shootout case.

Haryana tops chart of states exceeding revenue mop up target.

Taliban suicide attack on Af ghan Nato base in Jalalabad kills eleven people including two civilians.

In Champions Trophy hockey tournament: The match between India and New Zealand is in progress

at Melbourne.

Funeral procession of f ormer Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral begins a short while f rom now; A

large number of people pay their last respects to the departed leader.

Eight people including f our women killed in a bus f ire accident at Hinganghat in Maharashtra.

Punjab government launches biggest ever door to door campaign f or early cancer detection and

treatment.

http://www.bharatnewsportal.com/2012/12/current-affairs-of-december-2012.html

7/28/2019 Current Affairs of December 2012

2/2

India hopes Palestines enhanced status at t he UN will pave the way fo r resumption of direct t alks

with Israel.

India beat England in the opening Group A match of Champions Trophy at Melbourne.

Education News December 2012

The UGCs decision is termed as a major s tep towards ref orms in legal education in the country. All

these years, LL.M. was a two-year course like other masters degree courses. There was a demand

by the legal f aculty, students as well as experts to reduce the tenure to one year. This saves oneprecious year f or the students. It may also help check the f light o f students to universit ies in the

U.K., the U.S., Australia and other countries t hat o f f er the o ne-year course, they argued.

To make the students f eel at ease, many IITs, including IIT-Madras, had a week-long induction

programme for f irst- year students . Even the parents were brief ed about the system and how they

need to mot ivate their children through the curriculum. Not all students speak about their problems

because counselling is st ill not made compulsory. What we need is a regular session of mot ivation,

like most universities abroad have, said D. Patil, associate pro f essor at IIT-Bombay.

As many as 13,761 private schools have regis tered o nline with the Education Department as the last

date f or their mandato ry regist ration under the Right to Education Act, 2009, came to a close on

Friday.

Many schools that come under the Karnataka Unaided Schools Joint Action Committee (KUSJAC),

which had earlier resisted registrat ion on the ground that the process is too cumbersome, have also

now complied with the rule.

15 0 72